If you want to be a successful blogger with a decent fan following, you must master the art of writing awesome content. While this sounds obvious, you should also learn how to grow your loyal audience base by building a list of subscribers gradually. Speaking of subscribers’ list, there are quite a few tools to help you with it. However, I highly recommend using MailChimp, particularly if you’re new to blogging.

In this guide, I will teach you how to,

Create a MailChimp Account and List of Subscribers
Install and Configure Your MailChimp Plugin
Set up an RSS to MailChimp Campaign

Please, note that there are many ways to start an automated newsletter campaign with MailChimp. Once you follow the tips below and create your own email newsletter campaign, you should be in a pretty good situation to customize your email campaign as per your needs. However, if you’re a newbie, you should stick to these simple steps as of now.

Step #1: Create a MailChimp Account

Create an account with MailChimp. It’s free and all you need is an email. When I say FREE, it essentially means there’s a FREE Plan that allows you to send up to 12,000 emails to a list of 2,000 email subscribers per month.

At MailChimp, they call it Forever Free plan.

If you’re new to blogging, this is a great plan for you to check out. There’s simply nothing to lose by taking world’s most trusted email marketing tool for a test drive.

Step #2: Create a MailChimp List of Subscribers

Assuming you have just started your blog and you really don’t have any subscribers, you still need to create a list of subscribers in order to integrate your list to your MailChimp plugin.

Creating a list is no big deal. All you need is fill out some details and click save.

To get started, log into your MailChimp dashboard and click on Lists and then click on “Create List“. Fill out the list details. Save the details once you’re done.

On the next page, you can add contacts (email addresses) by importing your existing subscribers or creating a sign up form. Check out the second option in the next step if you want to create a sign up form.

Step #3: Install & Configure Your MailChimp Plugin

In order to build a loyal audience, you need to allow your blog visitors a chance to subscribe to your new posts. You can do so simply by creating an opt-in form on your blog. There are two ways to do it.

First Option: Install and Configure MailChimp Plugin

There are quite a few plugins available for this. However, I would recommend using MailChimp’s very own plugin because of the compatibility factor. If you want to use any other plugins, you could choose from one of these. My personal favorites include MailMunch Plugin and MailChimp for WordPress.

If you choose to go with MailChimp List Subscribe form, it should be pretty straight forward for you. Once you install and activate the plugin, you will need to enter your API Key. You can generate API Key by following this path: Account under your name > Extras > API Keys.

Then go to your plugin dashboard and enter the key and click connect. (Screenshot below)

Done! You should now be able to add an opt-in on your sidebar widget area.

Second Option: Create Sign Up Forms Using Embedded Forms

If you want to choose any third-party plugin or simply insert the code inside a text widget, you can choose this option. In most cases, you will require just a Form Action code for your plugin to work. However, if you want to use a text widget, then you can generate the code snippet inside MailChimp and then enter it in your text widget box.

First, you need to download and install one of the third-party opt-in plugins of your choice. However, none of those plugins will work on their own. You still need to generate a Form Action.

In order to get the Form Action code, simply click on the Embedded forms option, and then choose only the form action code from the available code snippet (as shown in the screenshot below).

It doesn’t matter if you choose Classic, Super Slim, Horizontal or Naked, your Form Action code will remain the same.

Once you copy the Form Action code, go to the widgets area and enter it at the appropriate place within your plugin. Fill out any other details, save it and you’re good to go.

Alternatively, if you go the text widget way, you can simply copy the entire code snippet and paste it in a widget box. In that case, you don’t need to install any additional plugin.

Step #4: Create a New RSS Campaign

After creating your profile, log into your dashboard, go to campaign tab, and click on Create Campaign located at the right-hand upper corner.

Step #5: Choose Your Campaign Type

You need to select a type of campaign from the available options. Choose RSS Campaign and click on the select button.

Why RSS Campaign? Because we’re going to integrate our blog’s RSS feed.

Step #6: Add Your Blog’s RSS Feed

Enter your blog’s RSS Feed URL. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, then you simply add/feed at the end of your blog URL and you should see the xml feed.

For example, for this blog, it’s bogusblogging.com/feed.

So, you need to enter your feed URL and specify time and day – MailChimp will help your blog to automatically send the latest posts to your blog subscribers based on the time and day specified.

MailChimp typically shows the US time zones. If you live in any other time zone though, you need to simply convert the time to your zone simply by searching on Google.

For example, if you enter 4AM EST to IST on Google, you will get the following results: 1:30 PM Wednesday, Indian Standard Time (IST).

This helps you understand when MailChimp will send newsletters to your subscribers.

Sounds confusing? Leave your questions in the comment below and I can explain it further.

If you get this, let’s move on to the next step.

One more thing: There’s an option to resize your RSS feed images. Simply check the box.

NOTE: The next button is located at the bottom of the page just in case you’re unable to see it properly.

Step #7: Set Up Your Campaign

Set up your campaign. Just fill in a few details about your campaign and click next.

Step #8: Choose MailChimp Template

Here, you need to choose an email template. You can go with the first template (Column 1) because you want to get the hang of it.

Step #9: Design the MailChimp Template

Once you have chosen the template, it’s time to design it. A MailChimp template essentially consists of different blocks filled with code designed with RSS tags.

Since it’s an automated RSS-to-Email campaign, you need to configure different elements of your template.

For example, you might want to choose to show only the tile of your most recent post, a description and a few posts published earlier.

To begin with, click on any element of your chosen template and you can see the edit/delete button. When you click on the edit button, you will see the RSS items on the right-hand side of the panel.

On the menubar, click on the source button to edit the RSS code. For your convenience, I’ve created a ready-made code snippet which you can use to replace the existing RSS code.

If you want to make any changes the in the code above, this guide can help you.

Click on each of the existing block and make edits as per your preference. On the top menu, you can click on “Preview and Test” to see what the current template looks like.

Once you’re done with the template, click on Next button to proceed to the next and final step.

Bonus Tip: If you want to show your featured image in the RSS Feed, install and activate this plugin. Because of some weird MailChimp-WordPress compatibility issues, your featured image doesn’t automatically appear on your RSS feed. However, this plugin solves this problem.

Step #10: Review Your Campaign and Activate It

At this point, your campaign is ready to be sent to your email list. MailChimp shows you a list of items for review so you can fix if there’s something is amiss. You should see a green tick against all items if you have done everything right so far. Click on the Start RSS button (Confirm RSS Start) and it’s done and done!

The next time you publish any post on your blog, it will be sent to all the email recipients in your subscribers’ list.

Hope you find this tutorial useful. If you have any questions. Please, leave it in the comments below.

Free Advice to Freelance SEO Content Writers

Many SEO content writers undermine the importance of improving their skills unless and until someone specifically points out the inherent issues in their writing consistently over a period of time.

It’s not possible to find freelancers who can take care of everything. They make mistakes over and over again. It depends on whether they are doing anything to improve their writing on a daily basis. If they are simply using all their times in completing projects, then they are leaving very little scope for self improvement. Unfortunately, many writers fall in this trap and undermine the importance improving their skills unless and until someone specifically points out the inherent issues in their writing consistently over a period of time.

On another note, web content writing is not only limited to writing content with proper grammar – it’s much more than that.

FYI, here are some of the best practices in content writing

#1 – Don’t Just Write, Address Queries

Writing an article is essentially all about addressing queries of your prospective readers. Therefore, the writer must have the intention to “address” the queries of the readers to begin with. This is where the research becomes helpful. I would rather write one exhaustive article in 2000 words that fully addresses the queries of my readers than write 4 articles that don’t really serve any purpose. Let me put it this way – not all 2000-word articles are informative and research-driven, but it’s usually true the other way round.

But it’s not even about the word count. Unless one has the intention to conduct an in-depth research on the topic and tries to capture all aspects of a topic one’s article, it doesn’t make any sense.

#2 – Research, Research, Research

Research oriented articles usually contain references to authority websites which offer credence to the information. It does take time to write a research-oriented article but that makes perfect sense. Research oriented articles contain links, images, infographics and even videos to make the presentation interactive and fun to read. Write to engage your audience.

#3 – Go Beyond Just One Keyword per Article

The writer should have a sense of SEO while writing the content. A good SEO copy is not about keyword stuffing – it’s about knowing where to place the keywords (and its semantic alternatives) that blend naturally with the text. Ideally, articles should have more than just one keyword.

#4 – Mind Your Grammar or Your Readers Will

Finally, the quality of grammar, vocabulary, flow and presentation matter a lot. If the readers are educated enough and they find the opening paragraph has basic grammar issues, the copy will lose its credibility straight away and the readers will simply ignore the copy.

Be careful about the use of commas. Many writers undermine the importance of commas, which creates confusion for the readers.

Even, Google would not value a copy much if it has grammar issues. It’s one of the 200 signals Google takes into account before evaluating the quality of a copy.

There’s a great tool for measuring the quality of your content called Atomic Reach. It helps you measure the quality of your unpublished content based off a number of parameters and then suggests ways to improve upon those areas so you can achieve the highest possible quality for your content.

7 Facebook Status Updates that Could Ruin Your Reputation

Last year, in this thought-provoking post, Elizabeth Bernstein, the popular columnist at The Wall Street Journal, wrote matter-of-factly about the rise of Internet braggarts – a trend which is increasingly worsening, thanks to the proliferation of Facebook.

Her concerns about this unhealthy social trend hit home the message and lay bare an obvious truth many of us choose to ignore rather whimsically. If nothing else, her observations about the popular conduct on Facebook indicate many alarming behavioral patterns that could spell doom for our social relationships in the years to come.

It’s quite easy to agree with her points if you’re an active user on Facebook. Facebook was sure invented to grow your network, make new friends and share your joy with your friends in a whole new way. But little did Mark Zuckerberg know that his gift to the Internet world would be used by millions of people in ways that would breed contempt instead of love.

If you’re an active Facebook user (or rather Facebook addict) who is conditioned to express themselves in a state of utter oblivion, make no mistake – you could be turning people off with your unwarranted updates that are unpalatable at best and offensive at worst.

Here’s a checklist that helps you figure out which way your Facebook reputation is headed:

Before you start checking the list, picture this scenario: you’re surrounded by a group of people that include your boss, high school teacher, clients, and even acquaintances. And, then imagine yourself acting weird. Get real – you would never do those things if you were surrounded by equal number of friends in real life, would you?

However obvious the answer is, many of us unfortunately continue to craft a bad impression about ourselves in rather futile ways to coming off cool. I’m sure one or more of the examples listed below could fall in this context. Let’s take a look:

Showing Off Your Status

They say humility is a virtue and it’s true. But an analysis of status updates would reveal the hidden popular desire to display one’s possession. Be it the repetitive status updates about that latest gadget you have acquired recently or the swanky car you bought last week, your unbridled display of materialism is a huge turn-off whether or not you believe it. Would you keep on showing off your latest iPhone to each one in your neighbourhood in real life? And how would they react to such an obsessive showy attitude of yours? Think about that!

Revealing the Bad You

Everyone one of us gets upset about something or the other, and when the Internet wasn’t mainstream, the best we could do to distress ourselves was engage in something we liked or simply sleep it off. But today, many of us would rather go to our rooftop and shout our lungs out, right? No? Well, then why do we see such rampant practices across Facebook on a daily basis these days? Aren’t we aware that everybody is watching us? How about a little discretion there? Trust me, your friends would thank you for that! And, for your bad mood, there are definitely a whole bunch of effective alternative solutions out there. Try those – they still work!

Slamming Your Enemies in Public

I don’t know what the world is coming to! Looks like suddenly, Facebook has granted the humanity with the license to criticise others in public. Wherever you see, there’s an acerbically counter comment that carries enough venom and absolutely little substance. If Facebook servers were humans, they would cringe to death at such ridiculous volume of nonsense they are being fed every day. Nobody likes to hear your vitriolic in public however frustrated you are with your enemy. And, being a turn-off yourself is hardly a noble deed. You’re most likely to regret such an act anyway. Stay off such tendencies! It’s good for your emotional health.

Recommended Reading: How to Grow a Facebook Brand Page

Sharing Your Bad English

Never was there a greater (read wider) platform to demonstrate our creative writing skills until Facebook arrived in our life. Every now and then, we see people update their status with a witty thought expecting friends to press the like button in a hurry. While some do it with success, many simply end up making a mockery of themselves with their innocent display of bad English. What’s more – some even offer comic relief in the process. While it’s good for some, you definitely don’t want to let them know how awful your grammar is, do you?

Status Update with Ugly Photos

The Facebook world is full of hoax and yes, ugly pictures! I’m not talking about the real pictures people click and impulsively share using their smartphones in the most private corner of their room; they are as bad as they get. But I’m also taking about the poor memes they share, most of which are crafted by the crazy Facebook pages they’ve subscribed to. Somebody tell them most of those jokes are in poor taste and speak volumes of their awful comic sense.

Status Update using Slangs

“Be Yourself” is probably the worst victim of the meathead. While they fondly assume using slangs make a bold statement, it actually makes their discretions highly questionable. It’s like those parents offering their five-year old access to adult content. You would think twice uttering those words in front of your family members; so why allow your propensity to run amok on Facebook?

Gross Generalization

Racism, sexism, trivialisation and stereotyping remind us of one thing these days – Facebook. When regular updates seem creatively monotonous, some resort to worst possible alternatives in an attempt to appear unique and updated. Even when they are miles away from current affairs on a regular day, they don’t mind jumping on the bandwagon if something seems like a cool update to them. Neither are they inquisitive nor are they conscientious enough to ponder over how their silly contribution could potentially spread misinformation among their friends.

They are right: there is a thin line between socialising on Facebook and demonstrating douchebaggery. Sadly, that line is getting blurred day after day.

Do you ever think twice before posting an update? Have you ever regretted posting an update to the extent of deleting it subsequently? Please, share it in the comment below.

How to Maintain Discretion on Facebook

Facebook is like a prom evening where everybody tries their best to elicit most attention. As you log in to your Facebook profile every day, scores of status updates, ranging from breathtaking to bizarre, vie for your attention. Depending on your personal taste, you go through some updates while ignoring the rest. Ever thought why you prefer interacting with some updates over others?

According to social psychologists, Facebook has sprung open doors for people to express themselves in an unbridled fashion, where many strive hard for validation from their fellow Facebook users. In pursuit of this recognition, they end up building themselves bad impression, especially when they fail to use their editorial discretions and goes beyond the limit of accepted decency. This, often, can prove to be dangerous to a user’s prospect as they allow people to make a wrong judgement about them. There are reports of job seekers being rejected in the interview over their Facebook wall content. In fact, many recruiters have admitted to have rejected job seekers due to their lack of discretions as demonstrated across their online presence including Facebook.

Whether for professional or personal reasons, it’s important to maintain one’s online reputation across social networks, and taking care of your Facebook status updates goes a long way in doing so. Luckily, it’s really not that hard to build a good online reputation on Facebook only if you exercise a little bit of restraint over your urge to post “anything” that tempts you on the spur of the moment.

Being an Internet marketing and social media professional myself, I’ve come across many behavioural patterns that make me cringe and question users’ editorial discretions on Facebook.

I’d suggest the following Facebook status tips in order to nurture a healthy online image and maintain discretion on Facebook:

Avoid Posting Highly Personal Updates

Blame it on the propensity to seek immediate attention from others; many Facebook users tend to reveal highly personal info on their Facebook updates. It doesn’t help your online reputation if you, for example, declare you breaking up with your girlfriend. Rather, it might invite unwanted attention and questions from others that would be rather mortifying for you to address.

Comment Responsibly

Watch your words for they reveal your thoughts. How you conduct yourself on Facebook indicates quite much about your personality in real life. Avoid the urge to jump in and leave a comment unless you have something constructive to say. Don’t indulge in mindless commenting or get into a verbal duel with your fellow commentators. Remember, the world is watching you and forming an immediate opinion about your personality while you’re busy abusing people or cracking jokes at other’s expanse.

Don’t Complain About Things

As with real life, people also tend to have a negative perception towards others that complain about things most of the times on Facebook. While an occasional post about something you’re not happy with can enlighten your Facebook friends, frequently negative posts can turn them off big time. Nobody likes a killjoy or constantly whining person. In such a case, you’d be better off writing a note than posting an update on your thoughts.

Be Careful of What You Like/Share

Often your Facebook likes and shares reveal a lot about your personal characteristics. According to a study of online privacy, Facebook users are unwittingly revealing intimate secrets – including their sexual orientation, drug use and political beliefs – using only public “like” updates. The research into 58,000 Facebook users in the US found that sensitive personal characteristics about people can be accurately inferred from information in the public domain.

Researchers were able to accurately infer a Facebook user’s race, IQ, sexuality, substance use, personality or political views using only a record of the subjects and items they had “liked” on Facebook – even if users had chosen not to reveal that information. Sharing updates and pages that have low value proposition frequently could give a negative signal to some of your Facebook friends. Choose to like Facebook Pages carefully and share their updates with a great deal of prudence in order to protect your social reputation.

Don’t Covet Likes/Comments

According to many studies, likes and comments tend to boost the ego of Facebook users to a significant extent. This trend has affected the users so much that many often feel depressed when their updates don’t get the desired traction they expected. If you want to maintain your sanity on Facebook, don’t allow “likes” or “comments” to affect you. Lower your expectation from your Facebook friends and don’t take their ignorance or indifference to your updates in a negative manner. Remember: it’s your status. Your status should be dictated by your own thoughts and actions. Obviously, if you’re posting it, you’re probably looking for feedback. If you get some, that’s good for you. But if you don’t, just accept it and move on. Indifference should not deter you from being who you are.

Maintain Some Class

If you’re craving for positive attention from your Facebook friends, you should know how to earn it. Don’t post ludicrous and outlandish updates to garner attention. If you act like a moron, they will treat you like a moron. Maintain some class and safeguard your online reputation.

6 Vocabulary Errors That Might Embarrass You to Death

This is NOT exactly the kind of post I’d like to write, but I guess I MUST. Despite being passionate about the English language, I’m still far from being perfect with my English writing skills. However, I cringe whenever I find people mispronounce or misuse some very common words in English vocabulary, which actually brings me to write this post. In this post, I will only talk about the words that people use wrongly both in writing and day-to-day speech.

So here are some words I have heard people abuse with gay abandon.

Improve vs. Improvise

Wrong: I want to improvise my communication skills.

Right: I want to improve my communication skills.

Explanation: The meaning of the verb “improvise” is performing a task without any prior preparation. The noun is “improvisation”. Both Improve and improvise may sound acoustically similar, but they are in no way related to each other. Grammatically speaking, improvement is the noun form of the verb “improve” while improvisation is the noun form of the verb “improvise”. Look at the following examples:

Example#1: Sachin Tendulkar has a great deal of improvisation skills. (This means that he has the ability to accelerate the run rate without taking much time to settle down.)

Example#2: Sonu Nigam’s ability to improvise onstage is second to none. (This means Sonu Nigam has the ability to sing any song without prior practice or rehearsal)

Read More: Yahoo Answers

Historic vs. Historical

Wrong: This is a historical victory for the Indian cricket team.

Right: This is a historic victory for the Indian cricket team.
Explanation: Grammatically speaking, both historic and historical are adjectives; however, they are not related to each other. Historical means something pertaining to the history and past. Historic means remarkable or extraordinary.

Read More: About.com

Reputed vs. Reputable

Wrong: TCS is a reputed software company in India.
Right: TCS is a reputable software company in India.

Explanation: Both reputable and reputed are used to define the reputation of an organization. However, when you say TCS is a reputed organization, it essentially means you’re not very sure of its reputation. On the other hand, when you say TCS is a reputable organization, it means there’s not an iota of doubt that TCS is a company of national repute.

However, the following example is acceptable:

Example: The company hired her because of her reputed skills as a content writer. (The company is fairly sure of her skills in content writing)

Read More: The Hindu

Reply vs. Revert

Wrong: I will revert to your email later.

Right: I will reply to your email later.

Explanation: The most commonplace where the abuse of “revert” is rampant is workplace. In professional communications, especially in India, professionals have a penchant for “revert” when all they want to mean is “reply”. Why do they do so? To show off their vocabulary skills, maybe. Ironically, they end up hurting their own image in the process.

Grammatically speaking, “revert” means restoring something to its original state. So when you say “I’ll revert”, you mean you will go back your previous state. I have no clue what you mean when you say that, but for sure, you don’t mean to go back to your original state. So what’s the correct usage of the word “revert”?
Correct Usage: After spending three months in the alcohol rehab, my brother reverted to his drinking habits again. (This means my brother returned to his old habits of drinking)

In this context, it is highly pointless to say “I’ll revert to your email later”. Technically, nobody can actually revert to an email.

NB: Some people often go overboard and say “I’ll revert “back” to your email later”. OMG, for the love of God, please read this post

Pressure vs. Pressurize

Wrong: Stop pressurizing me!

Right: Stop pressuring me! (A line from the popular track Scream by Michael Jackson)

Explanation: According to freedictionary.com, the word “pressurize” means “to increase the pressure in (an enclosure, such as an aircraft cabin) in order to maintain approximately atmospheric pressure when the external pressure is low”.

For example: The captain will pressurize the cabin for the passengers’ comfort. (The captain will increase the pressure in the cabin to maintain the atmospheric pressure).

If you’ve ever travelled in an airplane or are a frequent flyer, you know what I mean.

However, pressurize can also be used to define the stress or strain although such use is quite informal, figurative and rare.

For example: He’s an executive who was pressurized by a heavy workload. (he’s subject to excessive stress, strain, or vexation)

Read More: Yahoo Answers

Staff vs. Staffs

Wrong: You’re the best staff in our company.

Right: You’re the best employee on our company staff.
Explanation: I have absolutely lost count of how often I hear this word being abused, both in writing and speech, on a daily basis. Blame it on the cultural orientation, and poor English skills of many teachers at elementary schools in India, many people have acquired a wrong impression about the word “staff”. Grammatically speaking, staff is collective noun, meaning a group of professional in a particular organization. Like the word “department”, staff also refers to two or more things or people as a group.

Therefore, you can’t afford to use the word “staff” to mean a single person when it effectively means a group.

For example: He is a reliable staff member. (NOT reliable staff)

Another Example: I would like to thank the staff of the Department of Technology for their help. (NOT staffs)

NB: As far as “staffs” is concerned, it can be used to mean a group of different departments in a company. However, such usage is quite rare. To know more about staffs, please take your time to read this. Also, you might also like to read this to understand the comprehensive usage of “staff”.

Disagree with any of my ideas? Feel free to reply (not revert) to me with your thoughts in the comment section.

For more examples of Indian English Errors, please visit: Common English Errors

Read More: Online Grammar

5 Facebook Behaviors That Ruin Your Image Online

Just as you wouldn’t judge a book based on its cover, don’t judge me based on my Facebook profile yet!

According to a recent survey, India ranks as the third highest Facebook users on the planet with around 38,045,000 Facebook users across the country. While this shows the burgeoning popularity of social networking sites across the country, it also indicates how many potential Facebook users you are exposing your profile to. In other words, you need to be much more aware of your social behavior and make sure your Facebook behavior and conduct don’t ruin your image. Therefore, it is important to handle your Facebook profile with a great deal of discretion instead of using it as a sounding board for your emotional eruptions.

We’ve seen the worst consequences of people abusing Facebook today. If you’re not aware of them, here are a few Facebook Stories that made it to the Times of India this year:

Even as your Facebook behavior will never lead to any of the above consequences, you still need to be careful of how you conduct yourself on Facebook. As a matter of fact, how you behave yourself on Facebook is how you allow others to judge you as a person. While Facebook may seem too tempting a platform for you to hold your thoughts back off your mind, take a couple of moments and consider if they are going to ruin your image in any way.

So what are the aspects of your Facebook behavior that might land you in trouble? Here are 5 things you should never do on Facebook:

Washing Dirty Linen

More often than not, many people tend to allow their deep-seated grudges make it to their Facebook wall. While some express their frustrations publicly, expecting the opponent to take note of them, it effectively expose their inner persona to people they never meant to share their personal life with. As a result of this behavior, they allow others to gradually build a certain opinion about their personality. Doing this will do you more harm than good as you allow others to perceive you as an emotionally weak person who doesn’t know how to take control of his/her personal life.

Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Varkha Chulani, says, There’s a fine line between sharing of information and emotional exhibition.” “Love you darling. Muah”, “Thanks for last night”, “We need to talk” and “I think your sister is fat” does not need to make it on the Wall. These conversations are best had person to person. And if this is not the kind of thing you would say to his/her face, it makes it all the more cowardly to say it online.

Posting Trivial Updates

It doesn’t really matter how less or more frequently you post updates on your Facebook wall. What really matters is the nature and content of your updates. Posting trifling details about your daily life will not only bore your followers, but also establish you as a person with no discretion. If you are in the job market looking for an employment opportunity, you have to be twice as careful while posting petty updates on your wall. Your prospective employers could judge you based on your Facebook behavior and they will think twice about hiring a person with no discretion.

Launching Personal Attack

Nothing makes your profile more unpleasant to watch than launching a personal assault on somebody you have serious issues with in real life. You definitely don’t want a whole bunch of people watching you make scathing attack on someone whom they hardly know personally. Chances are you will lose your social credibility in the process and project yourself as a temperamental jerk. Worse, some people will unfriend or unsubscribe you from their Facebook.

Tagging Friends without Their Consent

Tagging is a great tool of uniting friends together on Facebook when you have something worthwhile to share with everybody. However, quite a few of them tend to misuse it by tagging others without any discretion or consent from others. For instance, frequently tagging people that are mere acquaintances to you on Facebook, might tick them off and invite unwanted attention from them. There are people who may be getting disturbed or annoyed by recurrent Facebook notifications arising from your tagging them on nearly every photo you upload to your wall. Resist the temptation of tagging people indiscriminately before they report abuse.

Commenting Immaturely

This is probably the most endemic of all Facebook behaviors. Nearly 80% of the comments on Facebook are either made without a second thought or targeted towards another person on purpose. Either way, it is not going to establish you as a person of repute among your friends on Facebook. Likewise, indulging in frequent commenting only shows your lack of depth as a person and puts your juvenile social behavior in perspective. Make sure you comment only when it adds some meaning or value to the discussion and not make your wall turn into a virtual chat box for others.

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